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 ## Remaining Backlog (Phases 3 & 4)
 
+0. [ ] **Track: Sloppy.py Startup Speedup**
+   *Status: 2026-06-05 — Surfaced during regression_fixes_20260605 root-cause analysis. `sloppy.py --enable-test-hooks` startup latency has crept up; live_gui fixtures time out at `wait_for_server(timeout=15)`. Hypothesized cause: too much init work on the main thread (FastAPI hook server bring-up, log pruner retry loops, MCT startup). Plan: profile startup, move heavy init off the main thread to the controller's background thread pool, defer non-critical subsystems to lazy-init on first use. Spec/plan to follow.*
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 1. [ ] **Track: Bootstrap gencpp Python Bindings**
    *Link: [./tracks/gencpp_python_bindings_20260308/](./tracks/gencpp_python_bindings_20260308/)*